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"We are able to execute very complex queries. Over 90 percent of our query executions are one second or less. We do millions of queries everyday.""The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly.""The data governance prospect... from what I've seen, that is a really powerful tool as well, to help with data lineage and keeping track of that.""The benefit is really because of the additional speed that we have and, truth be told, the more updated ETL processes and the revamped scheduler in general.""Distribution concurrency control.""The most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance.""IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution.""The underlying hardware that IBM provides with this appliance is made for a specific purpose, to serve performance on a large amount of data, and to do analytics as well. It is faster, when you compare it to any other product."

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"Data compression. It was relatively impressive. I think at some point we were getting 4:1 compression if not more.""The performance of the solution is its most valuable feature. The solution is easy to administer as well. It's very user-friendly. On the technical side, the architecture is simple to understand and you don't need too many administrators to handle the solution.""Speed contributes to large capacity.""For me, as an end-user, everything that I do on the solution is simple, clear, and understandable.""The most valuable feature is the performance.""The need for administration involvement is quite limited on the solution.""It is a back end for our SSIS, MicroStrategy,, Tableau. All of these are connecting to get the data. To do so we are also using our analytics which is built on the data."

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Cons
"Our main problem with it is concurrency. When there are too many users running Netezza at the same time, this is when we have the most complaints.""The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough.""IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available.""We are not able to scale. The only way to scale is to get another appliance, but we have a customers who would need us to hydrate the data between the two appliances, and Netezza does not do that.""LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance.""The only issue is that it's not expandable.""Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server.""In terms of features that I would like to see, one is the ability to actually scale out an architecture. Right now, if you buy one, it's fixed. There is no scale-up availability at all."

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"This product is being discontinued from IBM, and I would like to have some kind of upgrade available.""The Analytics feature should be simplified.""The solution could implement more reporting tools and networking utilities.""The most valuable features of this solution are robustness and support.""The hardware has a risk of failure. They need to improve this.""Administration of this product is too tough. It's very complex because of the tools which it's missing.""I'm not sure of IBM's roadmap currently, as the solution is coming up on its end of life.""In-DB processing with SAS Analytics, since this is supposed to be an analytics server so the expectation is there."

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  • "Netezza is a costly solution. It does serve a specific purpose but it's costlier than what's available in the market, if you go to the cloud."
  • "The pricing is very expensive. It has a lot CPUs with a lot of components in it. It also has built-in redundancy for resiliency reasons."
  • "The solution has a yearly licensing fee, and users have to pay extra for support."
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  • "Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."
  • "For me, mainly, it reduces my costs. It's not only the appliance cost. There are also support costs and a maintenance costs. It does reduce the costs very drastically."
  • "The annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."
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    Top Answer:IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution.
    Top Answer:The solution has a yearly licensing fee, and users have to pay extra for support.
    Top Answer:Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server.
    Top Answer:Here are some things to consider when migrating from Netezza to AWS Redshift A. Migrating your data from Netezza to Redshift may be done using methods such as: o Use a third-party tool to export… more »
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    Netezza Performance Server, Netezza
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    Overview
    IBM Netezza appliances are now part of IBM PureSystems - expert integrated systems with built in expertise, integration by design and a simplified user experience. Part of the PureData family, the Netezza appliance is now known as the PureData System for Analytics. It has the same key design tenets of simplicity, speed, scalability and analytics power that was fundamental to Netezza appliances.
    IBM Netezza Analytics is an embedded, purpose-built, advanced analytics platform that empowers analytic enterprises to meet and exceed their business demands. As features, it can predict with more accuracy, deliver predictions faster and respond rapidly to changes.
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    Seattle Childrens Hospital, Carphone Warehouse, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Battelle, Start Today Co. Ltd., Kelley Blue Book, Trident Marketing, Elisa Corporation, Catalina Marketing, iBasis, Barnes & Noble, Qualcomm, MediaMath, Acxiom, iBasis, Foxwoods
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    Financial Services Firm37%
    Retailer16%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Insurance Company11%
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    Educational Organization66%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Insurance Company3%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Small Business5%
    Midsize Enterprise69%
    Large Enterprise26%
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    Large Enterprise58%
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    IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Netezza Analytics is ranked 11th in Hadoop. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Netezza Analytics is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of IBM Netezza Performance Server writes "A cost-effective data warehousing tool, but security features like TDE encryption are missing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netezza Analytics writes "ARULES() function is the fastest implementation of the associations algorithm (a priori or tree) I have worked with". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, Teradata and SQL Server, whereas Netezza Analytics is most compared with Spark SQL and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.

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